Sri Chinmoy Triple-Triathlon, Sunday 13 November 2022
The 25th Sri Chinmoy Triple-Triathlon presented three remarkable records, each of them partly attributable to the weather. ...
Sri Chinmoy Centennial Park 14km, 7km & 4km Runs, Sunday 16 October 2022
Centennial Park has many fine faces, virtues and attractions, yet today exhibited another remarkable capacity – its ability to recover from a sustained drenching. After all the rain dumped on Sydney, one might have anticipated the Park’s dirt tracks...
Sri Chinmoy Labour Day 10km & 4km Fun-Runs, Canberra, Monday 3 October, 2022
Perfect weather greeted us at Lake Ginninderra this morning. Blue skies reflected in flat glassy waters, without a breath of wind about. The chilly 2 degrees soon warmed to an agreeable 10-ish degrees, making for excellent running weather. Sure, the...
Sri Chinmoy Iron Cove Half-Marathon, 7km & 4km Runs, Sunday 25 September 2022
Pursuing the dawn, a creeping fog claimed Iron Cove, as though veiling the day’s prospects. Yet this mask held no mystery, for all apps foretold a sunny day – and a sunny day we would have. After months of incessant rain, Sydney stepped forward to...
Sri Chinmoy Canberra Trail 100
Our journey’s dawn prefigures our journey’s close. We set out with high hopes and promise, circle around in one wide yearning, daring arc, and end up at our starting point. Like a yoyo, no matter how far afield we venture, our beginning draws us...
Sri Chinmoy "Gungahlin Gallop" 31km, 10km & 2.2km Trail Runs, Sunday 17 July, 2022
Hall Showgrounds is the venue for the annual National Sheepdog Trial Championship in March, when Australia’s best and finest dogs show off their astonishing wits and skills. it’s also the stage and staging point for the finale of the annual Sri...
Sri Chinmoy Dolls Point Half-Marathon, 10km & 5km Runs, Sunday 10 July, 2022
Torrential, sometimes horizontal rain – sunshine peeping through patches of blue – furious, maniacal wind – a glorious double rainbow crowning Botany Bay – helpers drenched as water rats – and through it all, the poise, perseverance and grace of a...
Sri Chinmoy "Tuggeranong Trot" 20km, 8km & 2km Trail Runs, Sunday 26 June, 2022
After two rainy trail runs in a row, it was a real blessing to wake up to perfect weather for the Sri Chinmoy “Tuggeranong Trot”. Clear, calm and glorious. Chilly to start with, but climbing to a balmy 12 degrees. The recent rains did make for a boggy...
Sri Chinmoy Lennox Gardens Half-Marathon, 5 Mile & 2 Mile Runs, Monday 13 June 2022
As the seasons turn, our sun rises and sets, we breathe in and out, a the tennis ball lobs and lands, so we return each June to shift left and right shoes one after the other, with or without wind, rain or sunshine, time and again encircling a time...
Sri Chinmoy "Ainslie Amble" 16.4km, 8.3km & 2km Trail Runs, Monday 30 May, 2022
Extraordinarily, course records fell in every age category represented in the women’s 16.4km race today, with new marks established by Pam Muston in the F60-69 (1:43:18), Kym Kennedy in the F50-59 (1:37:38) and Petra Mossop in the F Under 50 (1:19:44 ...
Sri Chinmoy "Stromlo Strides" 15.4km, 6.3km & 2km Trail Runs, Sunday 15 May, 2022
The steadfastness of the appointed hour made us all its innocent victims. It clocked a steady pace alongside nature’s indecipherable calendar and then, at 10am, 15 May (Race Start) struck upon her blowing wind and skies of rain. The rain sat on...
Sri Chinmoy Royal National Park Marathon, Half-Marathon, 10km & 5km Trail Runs, Sunday 8 May 2022
The Royal National Park is an ideal locale to appreciate the beauty and splendour of Nature. Running is the ideal way to imbibe and assimilate the power and sweetness of Nature. Racing in such an environment nourishes us integrally on all levels of...
Sri Chinmoy "Cooleman Clip" 10km, 5km & 2.2km Trail Runs, Monday 25 April, 2022
Cooleman Ridge has everything a runner could ask for: the Disneyland of Canberra’s trail scene. Despite being only in its second year, the Sri Chinmoy “Cooleman Clip”, the opening round of the Sri Chinmoy Canberra Trail Series – with its surprising...
Sri Chinmoy 48 Hour Track Festival, Canberra, Friday 25 – Sunday 27 March 2022
These silent-gliding clouds are unaware that for two days, a consortium of kindred souls had been steadfastly circling this curious, empty loop of blue below … The grass now beckoning the sun had huddled under a runner’s tent for 48 hours, patiently...